330 TIPULID^. 



luteous tinge at the base and in front, and with a short curved white 

 band adjoining the stigma, which is yellow ; veins testaceous. Halteres 

 testaceous. Abdomen with three brown stripes ; tip ferruginous. 

 Legs testaceous ; tarsi blackisli, testaceous towards the base. 

 E-are. In the British Museum. (E.) 



30. vaga, n. Mas, pallide Jlava, antennis nigris basiflavis, thoracis 

 disco nicjro, alis subcinereis fascia furcata albida, abdomine testaceo 

 vitta dorsali nigro-cinerea segmentorum raarginibus posticis fiavis, pe- 

 dibus testaceis, femoribus tibiisque apice tarsisque nigris. Long. 6 ; 

 alar. 12 lin. 



Male. Pale yellorc. AntennjE black, setaceous, shorter than the 

 thorax, with very few and short hairs ; first and second joints yellow ; 

 first brown towards the tip. Disc of the thorax black. Wings slightly 

 greyish, with a whitish forked band by the small brown stigma ; fore 

 fork extending towards the tip of the wing ; hind fork passing through 

 the discal areolet nearly to the hind border of the wing ; veins brown, 

 simjde in front of the discal areolet. Halteres with brown knobs. Ab- 

 domen testaceous, subobclavate, with a greyish-black dorsal stripe, 

 which widens from the base to the tip ; hind borders of the segments 

 pale yellow. Legs testaceous, rather long and slender ; tarsi and tips 

 of the femora and of the tibiae black. 



Very rare. In the collection of the Rev. L. Jenyns. (E.) 



31. annulicomis, Meig. Z\v. vi. 289. 51 (1830). — varicornis, 

 Schumm. Fulva, thoracis disco cinereo vittis quatuor fuscis, alis sub- 

 fuscescentibus apud venas obscurioribus macula albida, abdomine fascia 

 subapicali nigra, pedibus fulvis, femoribus tarsisque apice nigris. Long. 

 5-6; alar. 10-12 lin. 



Tawny. Antennae with a black band at the base of the fourth 

 and of all the following joints. Disc of the thorax grey, with four 

 brown stripes. Wings very slightly tinged with pale brown ; some of 

 the veins clouded with darker brown ; a whitish diffuse spot behind the 

 stigma, which is brown. Halteres testaceous. Abdomen with a black 

 band near the tip. Legs pale tawny ; tips of the femora and tarsi 

 towards the tips black. 



Not common. (E. S. I.) 



All the following species of Tipula belong to the genus Fachy- 

 rhina of Meigen, which may be thus characterized : — 



Pachyrhina, Mcq. ; Stseg. ; Eoss. (V.) ; Zett. D. S. Tipula p., L. ; 

 F. ; Gmel. ; Scop. ; Meig. ; Zett. I. L. ; Schumm. ; Gimm. 



Corpus magnum, elongatum, cylindricum, glabriculum. Caput parvum, 

 rotundatura. Erons anticc prorainula. Oculi reraoti. Proboscis 

 longiuscula, crassa, cylindrica, apice superne acuta. Palpi 4-articu- 

 lati, incurvi, subcyliudrici ; articuli primus, secundiis, et tertius sub- 

 .•cquales ; quartus longior ct pauUo angustior. Antenna) 13-articu- 



